The Purgatorio (Signet Classics (Paperback))
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"In the years of my reading Dante, after the first overwhelming, reverberating spell of the Inferno, which I think never leaves one afterward, it was the Purgatorio that I had found myself returning to with a different, deepening attachment, until I reached a point when it was never far from me . . . Of the three sections of [The Divine Comedy], only Purgatory happens on the earth, as our lives do, with our feet on the ground, crossing a beach, climbing a mountain. All three parts of the poem are images of our lives, but there is an intimacy peculiar to the Purgatorio. Here the times of day recur with all the sensations and associations that the hours bring with them, the hours of the world we are living in as we read the poem." --from the Foreword
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Book Description
Following The Inferno (also available from Signet Classic) and preceding The Paradiso (available next month from Signet Classic) this brilliant translation of Dante's immortal three-part Divine Comedy beautifully captures the conception of the aspiring soul.
Ciardi's version of Dante will be in many respects the best we have seen. (John Crowe Ransom)
The Purgatorio (Signet Classics (Paperback))
The Purgatorio (Signet Classics (Paperback)),Dante Alighieri,Archibald T. MacAllister,John Ciardi,Signet Classics,0451528026,Ancient, Classical & Medieval,Classics,Fiction,Literature: Classics,Poetry,Fiction / Classics
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